Twelve, twelve, twelve… | Free and Flawed

Remember when I told you that I didn’t like my neckless trainer? I lied. I really liked him tonight. He as a bit more friendly, which put me in a happier mood. Last week wasn’t a whole lot of fun either! All we did was work on my arms and some abs. Tonight we did a variety of crunches, planks, squats, lunges and leg work. It was good. More importantly I felt good!
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Am I losing any weight? Not really, but that was never really my goal. My BMI went from 26 to 23 and I am noticing that I’m a lot toner. Who knew this gym stuff works?! \

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I love how trainers overuse we. “Now we’re going to do lunges.” “Okay we’ll do plank.” Um…no WE are not. I am. You’re sitting there on your little square block all cool and refreshed while I shake as my muscles say “Eff you!”
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He even wanted to end a few minutes early. I was like WTF dude? Get back over to the mat and make me do something! I was on a roll. Punch my abs!
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Though I have to admit that I missed working on arms this week. One of my favorite things to do when I get home is flex in the mirror and see my little bicep in all of it’s post-workout glory. “Aww, hey there little guy.”
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It would be rude of me to not include a paint picture with this week’s gym post. I call this “What I Think of When I Hear Plank.”
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That would be my neckless trainer flying off the plank because he can’t count. 12 is NOT 16 buddy! The extra four does make a difference! And telling me I’ll do 14 and then saying 12 over and over isn’t cool. Don’t be all sneaky and throw in the extra ones.
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Missing out on other gym stories? More gym woes and paint pictures below:
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Super lunge
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Up next: Gladiators
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Big bucks
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I pity my trainer
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Glute stretch

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22 Comments so far

I love your trainer stories. It’s almost convinced me to get one

Wouldn’t your BMI dropping necessitate your weight dropping? Either that or you suddenly growing a lot taller.

I was thinking the same thing…you have to lose weight for your BMI to drop.

Maybe your body fat percentage dropped.

The “we” factor for trainers is like the “I” factor when you work in retail. When I worked at Best Buy, customers would ask where stuff was and I’d be all, “I just sold my last one, but I’ve got new stock in tonight so check back tomorrow and I should have it for you.”

I’m liking the gym more and more at the moment, but also not losing any frakkin weight :’(
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Paint pictures rule

Yeah, your mad Paint skillz are impressive.

“flex in the mirror and see my little bicep in all of it\’92s post-workout” oh yes. I love how my arms feel just after a workout. For that hour or so I feel just like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then a couple hours later it’s back to Arnold Horshack (anyone get that?) \

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Great Paint picture!

Planks are the worst thing known to man. *shudder*

My boyfriend is a meathead, he works out religiously, he has been quite successful in attaining his goals, and he is now trying to help me reach mine.
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I don’t have a personal trainer, but Joe could definitely substitute. He is quite informative, and he pushes me, but then he has the ability to nag at me whenever I am slacking off and I get to deal with that on a daily basis.
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I don’t want to lose weight either, I just want to firm up, but I commend you because I could definitely not deal with a stranger as a personal trainer. Someone who has nothing invested in me except for completeing a job. I’m too much of a wuss for that.

Oh man. I so need to get back to the gym next week.

Dude. . . you’re getting big muscles now! Awesomes. And I’m glad I read this post when I did, because I’m gearing myself to go to the gym in a few minutes.
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And when I had to do physical therapy for my knee, my pt did the same thing. “Ok, now we’re going to push your knee down as hard as it will go.” Um, hell no, dude! You’re going to do it, and I’m going to then knee you in the face because that hurt like bitch.

I just weighed myself for the first time in a while since I started training hard for my swimming. And I gained weight. So annoying. The only way for me to lose weight is to not eat, and that ain’t happening. My new “trainer” is a list of exercises I printed off the internet.

Plank never made sense to me either. Also heard it called the Superman. You go girl though! Keep up the fitness

Reason #452 why you rock my socks. So hilarious.

How come your paint pictures are always the shit? They’re awesome. Mine actually just look like shit.

do you mean BMI or body fat % ? I went from 26 to 18 body fat percentage (the one that gets measured with those little clippers that go into the fat… not a pretty sight) and I totally adore my trainer for that. He always says WE too. That’s so funny, and he laughs at me because I quit after 5, 15 and 30 minutes everytime, I’m like “that’s it. I’m done” But after all is said and done, he’s the reason why I lost the baby weight and got back to being fit. good for you for doing it!

I love your paint pictures!

Your trainer stories make me want to go the gym and get a trainer. However, I went into a gym a few days ago to photograph for work and there were only skeezy guys in there, trainers included.
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How did you choose your gym?

I’m glad you and the trainer have worked out your issues. And I saw you last night, you look awesome. Yeah the “we” in those conversations when actually it’s just you…not cool.

Reading about Jen Lancaster with Barbie in SAPF and reading about you and your neckless guy makes me want a trainer just to see what kind I get.

Your drawings are my favorite.

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